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Close your eyes. Imagine this. A 32yr old has 2 losses. He goes and chases a fight with a monster of a man 25 yrs old who stopped the men in 2 rds who gave him the two losses. The man he chased was 40-0 with 37kos. Now open your eyes. That man is Muhammad Ali!!
Fraser was relentlessly charging almost all 14 rounds. Crazy! Ali was spent, Fraser was wasted.
Ali’s corner also almost threw in the towel,but Fraser beat him to it.
It was a real Thriller in Manila.
One of heavyweight’s greatest fights, and best title defence from Ali.
I needed to move a sofa.
I mentioned this to an American. He said, "You know anybody with a truck?"
I did not know anybody with a truck.
He looked at me with real concern. Not pity. Concern. The way you look at a man who has told you he does not have a name.
"You gotta know somebody with a truck."
I asked how one acquires such a person.
He said, "You just do."
This is the third time I have received that answer in this country. It is the answer to everything here. You just do. There is no process. There is only the eventual fact of having.
He said, "Ask Kevin."
I do not know a Kevin. He said Kevin like I should. He said it the way you say a shared uncle.
I met Kevin four days later. Kevin owns a truck. Kevin does not own a truck for himself. Nobody owns a truck for themselves. Kevin owns a truck for a fifteen mile radius.
Inside I said: THIS MAN HAS TAKEN A VOW. HE DID NOT ANNOUNCE IT. HE SIMPLY PURCHASED A BED AND ACCEPTED THE CONSEQUENCES.
Kevin arrived on Saturday. He brought the truck. He also brought a second man.
I had not asked for a second man.
The second man's name is Tony. Tony came because Kevin came. Tony did not know me. Tony did not ask what we were moving. Tony brought gloves.
They moved the sofa in eleven minutes.
I offered them money. Both of them laughed at the same time, which felt rehearsed and was not.
I asked what I owed them.
Kevin said, "Buy the pizza."
That is the price. That is the entire economy. The truck costs one pizza and the pizza is not negotiable and the pizza is also not expensive and everyone knows what size.
Inside I said: THE FEE IS FIXED ACROSS THE ENTIRE NATION AND WAS SET BY NO ONE.
We ate on the floor because the sofa was against the wall and none of us wanted to be the first to sit on it.
Tony told me his daughter plays soccer. I asked if she is good. He said, "She's aggressive."
I still think about that.
Three weeks later, Kevin texted me.
"You free Sunday? Helping Tony move a fridge."
He did not ask if I wanted to. He informed me of a fridge.
Inside I said: I HAVE BEEN CALLED UP. I DID NOT ENLIST. THE PAPERS WERE FILED ON MY BEHALF.
I went. I moved the fridge. I have no truck. I contributed only arms.
Afterward, a man I had never met asked me if I knew anybody with a truck.
I said, "Yeah, I got a guy."
I have a guy.
I am somebody's guy now, too. Tony has told two people about me.
He describes me as "the guy who's strong for his size."
I have never been prouder of a sentence in my life.
Watched the Ali vs Foreman fight again, Ali outclassed Foreman in almost every round asides maybe round 5.
It’s really where Ali stamped his greatness. At 32yo KO a young undefeated 25yo champion, whose prior 7 of 8 fights ended in round 2 or less is insane!
Classic!
Pfizer paid for randomized trials on Viagra twice: once for erectile dysfunction, once for a lung disease. Both times it owned the patent. Generic sildenafil arrived in December 2017. In 2021 the Cleveland Clinic found 69% lower Alzheimer's incidence across 7.23 million insurance records. A follow-up study measured 18% instead, and when it excluded the three years before diagnosis the effect disappeared. A genetic study of 428,361 cases found lower colorectal cancer risk. This week the National Cancer Institute added a third finding, that the drug appears to trap the cholesterol that tumor cells need to spread. Not one of the three has been through a randomized trial. I spent my twenties doing cancer research. Many findings like these fall apart when you finally test them: 3,649 breast cancer patients took metformin for five years and it made no difference. An aspirin study stopped early because placebo was doing better. Knowing whether a drug actually works takes a trial, and a median oncology trial costs $31.7 million. No drug company pays that to prove a generic works. In March 2020 nobody knew which Covid treatments worked. Britain set up a trial called RECOVERY in nine days. It ran inside ordinary hospital wards, with almost no paperwork, testing one drug after another under a single protocol. The whole thing cost $500 a patient instead of the usual $41,000. RECOVERY found dexamethasone, a cheap old steroid, which saved about a million people. There are currently about 2,000 approved drug ingredients and more than 22,000 known human diseases.
Nigeria 🇳🇬 with the fastest qualifying time to qualify for the finals, one of the favorites to win 🥇
🔸Nigeria 🇳🇬: 3:14.58
🔸England 🏴: 3:15.11
🔸Australia 🇭🇲: 3:15.21
🔸Kenya 🇰🇪: 3:15.92
🔸Jamaica 🇯🇲: 3:17.36
🔸Scotland 🏴: 3:19.07
🔸India 🇮🇳: 3:20.98
🔸Zambia 🇿🇲: 3:21.72
I think this movie is called Dragon Forever.
My very first into to Jackie Chan, Samo Haung and Yuen Bao.
Not sure I got the spellings perfect but this movie was it!
Beautiful to see again. Still recalled this scene perfectly. 👌🏾
She is good. But the gentleman on the acoustic guitar is NOTHING short of a magician. Unbelievable!😲
🎸🔥Guitar Cover | Zombie (The Cranberries ) | Diễm Hương & Thanh Điền Guitar
This is free advice from an expensive psychologist. If you’re an anxious person, do everything for fun. Go to a job interview for fun. Submit documents for fun. Start a blog for fun. Anxiety feeds on importance. Don’t make everything a matter of life and death.
Episode 1 of ‘HOUSE OF THE DRAGON’ Season 3 will be 72 minutes long.
Featuring the Battle of the Gullet — one of the bloodiest naval battles in Westeros’ history.
🎬GAME OF THRONES🎬
Ramsay Uses Rickon as Bait to Break Jon Snow's Battle Plan and Trigger the B.l.o.o.d.y Charge at Winterfell.
They can never be any other scene more than this scene in “GAME OF THRONES”
Always impressive to listen to Lee Kuan Yew.
You’d understand that Singapore didn’t become prosperous by accident, and no wishful thinking or prayers will make a Nation great.
It has to be from leaders who have ideas and love the nation more than money,
19 out of 20 horses in this year’s Kentucky Derby are descendants of Secretariat, the Greatest race horse that ever lived.
Post mortem of Secretariat after he passed revealed he had the largest heart of any horse— in history.